The SCOTUS verdict recognizing homosexual "marriage" shows clearly how a self-selected liberal elite can run roughshod over the will of the people. Effectively striking down a referendum result in California was particularly objectionable. It is clearly the whims of a very unrepresentative Supreme Court that are sovereign in the USA, not the people or the States.
As a libertarian conservative, I think that marriage is no business of the State. It should be a matter of private contract or a religious arrangement. As it is however, the issue has become one of homosexual acceptance and the SCOTUS verdict has enforced that acceptance. Again as a libertarian conservative, I think such acceptance or non-acceptance should be a private matter, not one officially endorsed.
If homosexuals can find a church (Hint: Episcopalians) that will let them wear pretty clothes and perform a ceremony it calls marriage, let them go for it -- but leave the rest of us out of it. As it is, we now have an official declaration that a union between two sodomites is equivalent to something which is basic to the survival of the human race -- a union between a man and woman. And that surely disrespects and cheapens the standing of traditional marriage. Karl Marx would be pleased.
Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).
2 comments:
"If homosexuals can find a church (Hint: Episcopalians) that will let them wear pretty clothes and perform a ceremony it calls marriage, let them go for it -- but leave the rest of us out of it."
As many of us have been shouting for years, simple marriage equality was never the point. Rendering the concept of marriage meaningless - thus leading to the destruction of the family and (the BIG goal) of sexual roles and mores - has always been their goal. And they're succeeding.
Forgot to add:
Wait and see how many homosexual couples now go to the Episcopalians, who as you noted already welcome them with open arms, versus the number who will now successfully sue Baptist, Catholic and fundamentalist churches for refusing to marry them.
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